The Torah instructs us to count the days from Pesach to Shavuot – a practice known as S’firas HaOmer. But this isn’t just a countdown; it’s a build-up. We count to link two defining moments in our history: the Exodus from Egypt and the giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai.

Over the past year, Jewish students across American college campuses have faced an unprecedented wave of antisemitism. What once may have been subtle bias or passive exclusion has become overt hostility: vandalized Hillel buildings, acts and threats of violence against Jewish students, and demonstrations glorifying terrorism—all too often met with silence, or worse, from university administrators.

The Coalition for Jewish Values, representing over 2,500 traditional Orthodox rabbis in American public policy, today condemned the representative bodies of all three major non-Orthodox “denominations” for participating in a statement opposing the steps being taken by the Trump administration to confront the wave of anti-Semitic campus protests. That statement, issued by the Jewish Council for Public Affairs (JCPA), took precisely the wrong approach to both suspensions of government funding and deportation of foreign nationals participating in anti-Semitic incitement.

New Documentary Follows Yeshiva University Maccabees Basketball Team in the Aftermath of October 7th Attacks on Israel

FOX Nation will premiere Rebound: A Year of Triumph and Tragedy at Yeshiva University Basketball on Wednesday, April 9, announced Lauren Petterson, president of the platform. The documentary directed by Emmy award-winning filmmaker Pat Dimon spotlights Yeshiva University’s basketball team, the Maccabees, as they navigate their season following the October 7 terrorist attacks on Israel. Offering a look inside the private Orthodox Jewish university, based in New York City, Rebound follows the team as they dig deep to find the passion and dedication to succeed under the heartbreaking circumstances.